Largest Missouri Public Colleges

University of Missouri-Columbia is the largest public Missouri college with 31,304 students. The percentage of online students is 13.06% at the school.

Missouri State University-Springfield with 22,535 students and University of Missouri-Kansas City with 15,703 students are following it in the largetst Missouri college ranking.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% of online students. Instead, you can check them at the largest Missouri online colleges.

University of Missouri-Columbia stays at first place of the largest college ranking since last year. Missouri State University-Springfield also maintained its second place in the ranking.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $19,366 and graduate tuition & fees is $19,574 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 78.88% and the average SAT score is 1,159 at the schools.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% online students. Instead, you can check largest online colleges at the largest online colleges.

Table. Largest Missouri Public Colleges With Most Students Comparison
School NameTotal PopulationUndergraduate EnrollmentGraduation EnrollmentMen EnrollmentWomen EnrollmentOnline EnrollmentStudents to Faculty Ratio
1
-		University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MOPublic, 4-year 31,304
97		23,7457,55913,74617,5584,08818 to 1
2
-		Missouri State University-Springfield Springfield, MOPublic, 4-year 22,535
390		18,4194,1168,91913,6163,84819 to 1
3
-		University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, MOPublic, 4-year 15,703
300		10,1795,5246,6649,03988514 to 1
4
-		University of Missouri-St Louis Saint Louis, MOPublic, 4-year 15,181
8		12,4152,7666,1429,0392,74413 to 1
5
-		Saint Louis Community College Bridgeton, MOPublic, 4-year 14,301
609		14,301-4,9509,3513,13418 to 1
6
-		University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MOPublic, 4-year 11,637
1,107		7,3454,2925,3236,3141,30519 to 1
7
-		Ozarks Technical Community College Springfield, MOPublic, 4-year 10,889
383		10,889-4,5946,2952,63216 to 1
8
-		Southeast Missouri State University Cape Girardeau, MOPublic, 4-year 9,927
76		8,4541,4734,0175,9101,94120 to 1
9
-		Northwest Missouri State University Maryville, MOPublic, 4-year 8,505
635		5,3083,1973,2555,2502,74218 to 1
10
1		Missouri Southern State University Joplin, MOPublic, 4-year 4,144
208		4,052921,5722,57294817 to 1
Average14,41311,5113,6275,9188,4942,42717 to 1